Hussein Kothari
Langley,BC
Summary
Accomplished DevOps/SRE Consultant with a proven track record at BELL, leading a successful migration to AWS Cloud, enhancing scalability and saving $700,000. Expert in JFrog Artifactory and Terraform, with strong collaboration skills. Committed to driving efficiency and innovation in DevOps strategies, ensuring seamless operations and compliance.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps/SRE Consultant
BELL
12.2020 - Current
- As a DevOps/SRE Consultant, working on P&T project – Leading the Unified Artifactory team migrating to SaaS Instance and managing the platform.
- Led the end-to-end migration of a Unified Artifactory platform for 4000+ developers from on-premises to AWS Cloud, completing the project 15% ahead of schedule and 10% under budget with zero disruption. This strategic initiative enhanced platform scalability and reliability, aligning with the organization's cloud-first strategy.
- Harmonized 15+ individual team instances into a Unified Artifactory platform for 4000+ developers, leveraging Artifactory and JFrog Xray, resulting in a $700,000 cost saving over 3 years and streamlined artifact management.
- Optimized AWS PrivateLink egress by implementing Docker caching mechanisms and enforcing Docker Golden Images, reducing monthly consumption from 104TB to 56TB and achieving an annual cost saving of $68,700.
- Engineered and maintained end-to-end monitoring with ELK stack for critical DevOps tools (Artifactory, GitLab, Ansible Tower), enhancing system observability and reducing incident detection time by X%.
- Creating onboarding automation for Artifactory users and performing migration of smaller teams from Nexus to Artifactory.
- Building and maintaining entire end to end Monitoring with ELK stack for all the DevOps tools like Artifactory, GitLab, Ansible Tower.
- Architected and built an Openshift platform, leveraging Kubernetes and Docker, for deploying containerized Slackbot workloads, enhancing developer agility and operational scalability.
- Managing and supporting new users to on-boarding to Openshift platform and troubleshooting issues.
DevOps Consultant
TD
06.2019 - 11.2020
- As a DevOps Consultant, building the Enterprise DevOps pipeline for Development teams for deploying workloads on the Azure Databricks Platform.
DevOps Consultant
CONDUIT, NAVBLUE
11.2018 - 06.2019
- As a DevOps Consultant, on the Conduit Navblue project - Responsible for building and maintaining entire development and delivery pipeline for Navblue. The Infrastructure deployed via Terraform and instance & application baking done via Packer. The pipeline tooling consists of GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Maven builds, SonarQube, Hygieia and Docker and project management tools Jira, Confluence.
- Instrumental in implementing Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) controls for Public cloud initiate to ascertain their compliance to the CCM and ensuring the controls are NIST compliant for public cloud deployments.
Technical Specialist
General Mills, MN, Webhosting
08.2016 - 08.2018
- As a Technical Specialist, on the Webhosting team - Developed slotted environments for core sites worked on making changes in existing deployment workflow.
- Enabled the core development team to be able to increase the frequency of Release Cycles for Core Sites as part of CI/CD strategy. Implemented Monitoring solutions using Elastic Stack. Developed Ansible scripts to deploy beats agents across on premise clusters.
Software Developer
General Mills, MN, Site Migration Project
07.2015 - 07.2016
- As a Software Developer, on the Site Migration project - Developed a self-service tool in ASP.Net, MVC5, WebAPI's, Typescript, KnockoutJS.
- Providing experience in designing, building, maintaining, migrating, tuning, administering, supporting, and problem solving in complex server environments, working collaboratively with applications, network and systems teams to resolve problems.
Software Developer
Nine Dots Ltd, Salesforce Cloud Migration
06.2011 - 06.2012
- As a Software Developer worked on migrating the on-prem in-house CRMs system to the Salesforce Cloud CRM. Automating the script to validating the data duplications in cloud system.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Application
University of Mumbai
Mumbai03-2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Mumbai
Mumbai06-2011
Skills
- Telecom, DevOps, SRE
- JFrog Artifactory, Jenkins, Docker, Openshift Kubernetes, AWS / Azure, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, GIT, CICD Tools, ELK Stack Monitoring
- Linux/UNIX, Windows
- Jfrog Artifactory, Docker, CICD
- Python Automation
- Jfrog Artifactory
- Migration to Cloud
- CICD DevOps Automations
- Technical skills: Ansible (5 years, Skill level 4), Terraform (5 years, Skill level 4), Python (3 years, Skill level 3), Bash Scripting (4 years, Skill level 3)
- Application knowledge: JFrog Artifactory (4 years, Skill level 5), Gitlab (10 years, Skill level 5), Ansible Tower (6 years, Skill level 4), SonarQube (3 years, Skill level 2)
- IT disciplines: Agile/Scrum (10 years, Skill level 5), Systems Administration (6 years, Skill level 5), Application Development (4 years, Skill level 4), System Installation & Configuration Management (6 years, Skill level 4)
- Industry knowledge: Active Directory, HTTP/SSL/TCP/IP/DNS, Memory Dumps, Debug Diag Tool, (4 years, Skill level 2), ProcMon, Server Patching, Wireshark/NetCapture, Log Parser Studio (4 years, Skill level 2)
- Other relevant skills: Trello, Slack, MS Teams, Skype (10 years, Skill level 4), SharePoint, Jira, Confluence (10 years, Skill level 4)
- AWS cloud migration
- Artifactory management
- Infrastructure as code
- Continuous integration
- Monitoring solutions implementation
- Configuration management
- Container orchestration
- DevOps strategy
Certification
AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C010)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF C02)
AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
Languages
English
Languages
English
Professional
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
DevOps/SRE Consultant
BELL
12.2020 - Current
DevOps Consultant
TD
06.2019 - 11.2020
DevOps Consultant
CONDUIT, NAVBLUE
11.2018 - 06.2019
Technical Specialist
General Mills, MN, Webhosting
08.2016 - 08.2018
Software Developer
General Mills, MN, Site Migration Project
07.2015 - 07.2016
Software Developer
Nine Dots Ltd, Salesforce Cloud Migration
06.2011 - 06.2012
Master of Science - Computer Application
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Mumbai
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